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The Valtellina will celebrate an important milestone, which the wind has canceled on the occasion of the giant of Semmering. And on Sunday on the "Karl Schranz" he will aim even higher.
Friday 8 January 2021 4 minutes reading time
It will be a special day, the one that Elena Curtoni will experience on Saturday. Yes, because the Italian sprinter is celebrating her 200th presence in the World Cup at the age of 30.
A milestone that demonstrates how the path of the junior world champion, from those days almost ten years ago in which she conquered the super-g world title at a youth level, has been of the highest depth despite the problems and injuries that have braking. The Valtellina woman who, on 25 January 2020, gave herself the best day of her career (at least so far ...) with the first cup triumph in Bansko, in that thrilling descent that saw the blue sign another hat-trick, with Bassino second and Brignone third.
Elena began, just think, on November 14, 2009 in ... slalom, obviously in Levi's opening. Exit in the first heat, for the first points in the maximum circuit he had to wait for the ninth race, just over a year later, or the combined of Val d''Isère ended in 23rd position. The first podium in the descent of the Sankt Moritz finals, in March 2016, with a third place followed by the best season, the 2016/17 one, with two podiums in "his" super-g, third and second between Val d '' Isère and Crans-Montana, the fourth in the final classification of specialties and ... a very bitter ending.
At the end of March, in fact, there is the fracture of the malleolus in the trial of the tricolor descent in Bardonecchia, but the worst will come the following November, with the breaking of the crusader in training at Copper Mountain. Goodbye Olympics and a long recovery, effectively losing the chance to compete at the top also in the 2018/19 season, before literally reborn last year and reaching that triumph of Bansko.
Race number 200 should have been Semmering's, but the giant's cancellation after the first heat broke the count. Tomorrow the weather will not be an obstacle and, after starting the season with three top 15 in the fast races of Val d''Isère, now the "smallest" of the Curtoni sisters wants to raise the bar and, from St. Anton to at the World Cup in Cortina, always and in any case. Happy 200th, Elena.
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